Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Everything can be borne except contempt.